Sigrun Marie Moss

Swedish foreign policy has long been engaged in issues relating to gender. This was cemented in 2014 by the launch of its Feminist Foreign Policy which has been heralded as ground-breaking and the most comprehensive of its kind. It allows for a systematic mainstreaming of gender throughout the whole Foreign Ministry and in all aspects of foreign policy, along with an increased emphasis on concrete results. The Swedish government has however been criticized for, for example, hypocrisy as they continue to be involved in arms trading.